Loft cleaning advice please

I've been up in my loft looking at the drips.
Its never been cleaned in over 100 years-
what sort of tools and methods do you recomend i use?
What can go wrong if i get the biggest vaccuum cleaner i can find from HSS?

as well as cobwebs and dust and slate and woodrot powder
and cement and bricks and wood and metal pipes and wires live and dead
and lots of polystyrene chunks and ripped up bedding
and bits of carpet and that brown wooly filling from armchairs
and sleeping bags and eggboxes
which were put in for insulation in the 70s i guess...

a fire risk.

and what sort of breath protection?
those throwaway face masks look a bit flimsy for the amount of dust up
there,
and those plastic eye glasses make my specs steam up,
is there a mask you can recommend please?

Theres no asbestos i think.



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[george]

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George (dicegeorge) wrote:
Loft cleaning advice please

I've been up in my loft looking at the drips.
Its never been cleaned in over 100 years-
what sort of tools and methods do you recomend i use?
What can go wrong if i get the biggest vaccuum cleaner i can find
from HSS?
as well as cobwebs and dust and slate and woodrot powder
and cement and bricks and wood and metal pipes and wires live and dead
and lots of polystyrene chunks and ripped up bedding
and bits of carpet and that brown wooly filling from armchairs
and sleeping bags and eggboxes
which were put in for insulation in the 70s i guess...

a fire risk.

and what sort of breath protection?
those throwaway face masks look a bit flimsy for the amount of dust up
there,
and those plastic eye glasses make my specs steam up,
is there a mask you can recommend please?

Theres no asbestos i think.

Didn't you ask this about a week ago? There were plenty of helpful
responses.

i did try to ask this on friday
but it hasnt come up in my news inbox
so i assumed my message didnt get sent...

it had the same subject when i tried to send it before...

i guess if you saw it then it was sent,
maybe i can find it through google???

[g]

George (dicegeorge) wrote:
i did try to ask this on friday
but it hasnt come up in my news inbox
so i assumed my message didnt get sent...

it had the same subject when i tried to send it before...

i guess if you saw it then it was sent,
maybe i can find it through google???

That approach could keep other posters happy

yes, found them at 15th march
at
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.d-...1627c380543 2

but why didnt they show up?

I've been away offline for 4 or 5 days,
does the newsgroupreader often lose messages like this?

George (dicegeorge) wrote:
yes, found them at 15th march
at
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.d-...1627c380543 2

but why didnt they show up?

I've been away offline for 4 or 5 days,
does the newsgroupreader often lose messages like this?

Not in my personal experience but will depend upon ISP/ newsgroup route etc.

hmmm,
no uk-diy messages received dated sunday 16th march,
do i have to log on every 2 days?

George (dicegeorge) wrote:
hmmm,
no uk-diy messages received dated sunday 16th march,
do i have to log on every 2 days?

Sorry, can't help you here. If I've understood right you are using NTL as
your ISP but hotmail for your address and OE? How do you have your
newsreader set up - i.e to delete mail after say 2 days. this is moving out
of my realm of knowledge.

its getting a bit beyond me too...
but i now know if i dont logon for a few days
then some newsgroup messages dont get through,
i dont know why,
but it doesnt matter that much to me.

thanks
and
goodnight

having listened to a radio4 prgramme about caving at 11a.m.today
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/
i've been holding my breath for 30seconds
whilst ripping down ceiling lathes and plaster dust
then running away to rip off my mask and breathe...

stops the goggles getting steamed up!

got a usb keyboard
so im not getting plasterdust into my laptop!

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:56:42 -0000, George \(dicegeorge\) wrote:

hmmm,
no uk-diy messages received dated sunday 16th march,
do i have to log on every 2 days?

Depends how long the news server you are using retains messages for and
how reliable it is. Some servers have very short retention times others
are remarkably unreliable, some both...

--
Cheers
Dave.

Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:56:42 -0000, George \(dicegeorge\) wrote:

hmmm,
no uk-diy messages received dated sunday 16th march,
do i have to log on every 2 days?

Depends how long the news server you are using retains messages for and
how reliable it is. Some servers have very short retention times others
are remarkably unreliable, some both...

Virgin aren't that bad! (I use Berlin, partner uses VM news servers.) I
suspect it is something like the "download 500 messages" setting.

--
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